The four day meet ended in the signing of cooperative bilateral agreements with aims to expand bilateral trade to US$100billion before 2015 and cooperation on ocean research, telecommunications, technology, energy and agriculture.

In regards to the GMS Yingluck was quoted as saying that “Under this development scheme, it is my pleasure to inform you that a Mekong bridge between Thailand’s Chiang Rai and Laos’s Huay Xaiwhich provinces, connecting Yunnan [in China] to Thailand, will be opened on the 12th day of the 12th month of the year 2012,”

A report from Xhinhua news agency can be found here:

“…China is both the largest export market and second-largest import source for Thailand. The two countries’ trade volume hit 64.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2011”